Research Assistance (1054618CF)

Start Dates: ASAP  

Expected Duration: 30/11/2018

Working hours: approximately 7 hours per week, dependent on the project needs

Location: Mainly based at Highfield Campus but will include visits to sites (Southampton’s Guildhall, Southampton CCG in Millbrook and community venues around Southampton)

Please see below details of a new * temporary * assignment. 

You will be required to work with the Research Fellow on an Ethnographic study of the implementation of a social isolation project in Southampton,  which will require data collection, site observation in a community setting, interviews with participants,  document retrieval and analysis and possibly literature review.

Technical support or supervision with research activity setting up and running experiments/equipmentCritical review of documents, in-depth write-up of resultsIndependent working and understanding of expected outcome

Essential Skills: 

Job-related training and/or proven work experience in relevant roleKnowledge of work systems, equipment, processes and standard IT packages. Ability and willingness to travel around Southampton (City wide)

Desirable Skills: 

Supervisory experience desirable.

Application procedure:

** Please do not apply by completing the on-line application process associated with this advert as these may not be seen **

If you are available and wish to be considered for this assignment, please contact the University of Southampton’s UniWorkforce (either Judith or Nicola) by email:  UniWorkforce@soton.ac.uk attaching your CV.  The CV should demonstrate your suitability for this post.  In your response, 'I wish to be considered for The Research Assistance role Job ID NOT 1822-18’ and state your availability for interview.

Important points of note:

Temporary assignments offered through UniWorkforce are casual roles. The start and end dates specified are the expected dates but these can change without notice and there is no guarantee of work for the duration of the assignment and no notice period required on either side.  Please ask us for further details regarding this if it is a concern for you.Temporary workers are paid a month in arrears.  Pay day is on the last working day of each month.  This means that, depending on your start date, it could be up to eight weeks before you receive your first payment. To be eligible to apply you need to be immediately available.  Interviews will take place before assignments are offered.The above assignments are open to all.  Prior to starting in the assignment it is necessary to register with UniWorkforce and show both Visa and Passport documents to confirm your Right to Work.Applicants will be considered on receipt and therefore this advert may be closed before the above closing date.Due to the high volume of responses we are unfortunately unable to respond to all applicants individually, but we will respond to those who the manager wishes to meet/take on for the assignment.  

** Please do not apply by completing the on-line application **

Closing Date: 13 Sep 2018
Post Type: Temporary Workers